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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being a subject.
(b) Not being an object.
(c) Being a subject.
(d) Being nothing.

2. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) The abject.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Life.

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A living being.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A person which should be alive.
(d) Someone who never lived.

4. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Evil.
(b) Anti-social.
(c) Angry.
(d) Depressed.

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His mother's body.
(b) His parents' love.
(c) His toys.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

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